Scape-It™ Posts: Landscape Lighting

Outdoor lighting can be used for visibility of entrances and steps, to enhance features, add mood and interest, to create multiple living spaces, for security, and for signage.

Successful outdoor lighting requires planning and the selection of the proper fixtures. There is a wide variety of styles and price ranges available from packaged systems to custom designed ones.

The packaged systems are limited as to their location, distance from the transformer and number of lights. Custom systems are more flexible as to the style of lighting and quantity.

Lighting can be:

silhouette effect by using back lighting
directional as in shadow or uplighting
accenting by highlighting a single item

Some of the different styles of lights are: path lights, cone lights, floodlights, pond lights, stone lights, surface lights and deck lights.

Path lights can be edge lights installed alternately along the path.
Cone lights added to planting beds give interest and highlight color and texture of plants.
Floodlights can shine from behind an object for shadowing (works good with color) or shine onto objects to accent vertical or textured surfaces. They can also be attached to tree branches and give a moonlighting effect to the area below.
Pond lights work best if there is foam- you can light the bubbles.
Stone lights have the bulbs embedded in them and can be used for accents or in stairs.
Surface lights can be mounted onto surfaces of walls whereas deck lights can be built into posts or steps.